"We are the only country in history that ever deliberately changed its ethnic makeup, and history has few examples of 'diversity' creating a stable society." - Richard Lamm, former governor of Colorado

Lawson told investigators three days after the June 18 attack that he was at a friend's house the night of the rape. However, residents of the home did not confirm that story, according to police.

Confronted with the DNA evidence, as well as a partial palm print at the victims' home, he confessed, a police spokesman said.

Lawson was soft-spoken and cooperative but expressed no remorse, the spokesman said.

The attack began at 8:30 on a Monday evening when one assailant lured the woman from her home by telling her the tires on her car were flat. There, two more masked, armed attackers ambushed her, forcing her back inside.

During the next 20 minutes, seven more attackers followed the others into the apartment, where they raped the mother repeatedly, smashed a plate over the boy's head and poured household chemicals into his eyes, as well as other acts.

After the assailants fled, the victims walked a mile to Good Samaritan Medical Center, where staff members called police.

The details of the crime included acts that revolted veteran investigators.

The attackers did not seem to know the victims, who kept to themselves because the mother was worried that the neighborhood was unsafe for her son, police said.

The apparent randomness of the attack, the number of assailants and nature of the assault prompted investigators to work "day and night, every day," West Palm Beach Lt. Chuck Reed said.

"Old-fashioned police work" gave investigators Lawson's name and the names of several other teenagers, Reed said.

It's not about race or color. Those teens should be put to death for doing such terrible sin. Forget about reforming them. I would have preferred that they be tortured for doing something so terrible. For the sake of the mum and her son life to go on, putting these menace to death would be better.

Your post did not mention the most revolting aspect of this attack --these gangstas forced the 12 year-old boy, at gunpoint, to rape his own mother.

It would have been no less heinous if white kids had done this, but half the violence in this country is done by blacks who are only 12% of the population. Something is pathological about predominant black youth culture, but don't expect Al Sharpton to be protesting such attacks any time soon.